Sep 12, 2012

morning september walk, august blue moon

The sparkle and shine in my day comes from my walks with my husband in the morning and evening.

Along the way, we view the ocean, meet rabbits, birds, squirrels, cow, cats, dogs, and sometimes deer. We pick and eat berries from the wild vines that grow throughout the island.

september morning walk

One of the exercises in your creative brain book that I borrowed from the library is to memorize 10 poems. You work with one poem at a time, memorizing and then reciting the poem from memory for seven days. Husband is joining me on this exercise, so today we stopped along our walk to recite our poems.

My first poem is by Li Po based on Ezra Pound's translation:

Marble Stairs Grievance

On Marble Stairs

still grows the white dew

That has all night

soaked her silk slippers

But she lets down

her crystal blind now

And sees through glaze

the autumn moon.

View of the August blue moon rising over pugent sound off of Whidbey island.